Today's update: still sick, not much change. Ears popping when I blow, which is good I guess. Some coughing, but it does seem a bit better over a few days ago.

Food: would you believe I'm hungry? that's new.

B: water

L: chicken broth, maybe with hot sauce (eta: I tried scrambling an egg and pouring it in... I didn't get strands, i got, um, scrambled floating egg. It's not bad, but now I have to learn how to make egg drop soup).

D: probably pork loin, fried with a bit of lemon? I miss my greek yogurt, but I think I should lay off the dairy products for a while.

I have some frozen fish fillets I'm going to cook up and I'll be living on those today.

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I don't mess with so call md, medium meal day.
Every other day for me is a dd, My dd no matter what, unless I have a 1,800 cal and up! that's an UD whoever reads it. Then next would be dd.
Eating 1,200 1,500 and little more is a dd, in my book for any adult. Well 1,500 is up there isn't it? But it's still low.
i cant stoke my body for having a successful dd, doing "md" first. Not good, I won't make the real dd feeling like a human.
Uhh I'd be grumpy, lite headed, yukie stomache off and on for sure. Not a gd= good day.
Ei

Ok-been playing around with the JUDDD calculator and I think I'm going to adjust my calories from the 20% weight loss mode to the 35% weight loss mode, to give myself a bit of breathing room on my DDs (just a temporary thing though). So, I'm going to start today with my different DD calories, which are now 604

Sara, a lot of people do that, or use the calculator to figure out a range of numbers: 20%, 25%, 30%, 35% etc.

That way, if you have the odd DD that isn't going to plan, you can still look at the range and say "HEY! I'm still doing a DD, just a little higher" as opposed to say, throwing it all out and eating a pizza.

Sara, a lot of people do that, or use the calculator to figure out a range of numbers: 20%, 25%, 30%, 35% etc.

That way, if you have the odd DD that isn't going to plan, you can still look at the range and say "HEY! I'm still doing a DD, just a little higher" as opposed to say, throwing it all out and eating a pizza.

I know that anything from 0-say 700 for me is still a DD.

Soren

I can't believe it never dawned on me to look further at the calculator-I didn't even realize there was all those other percentages I'm going to get my DD numbers for all the different ranges and then play around with them. Since I'm getting close to my goal, I think I can start transitioning closer to the maintenance range